Especially if these pears are shipped by sea. Then it’s even worse.

Shipping via sea is the cheapest and least greenhouse gas producing way to ship things. With the only exception being pipes, which are significantly better than ships on both fronts. However, we shouldn’t be shipping peaches via pipe. ;p

only ad I see is the occasional sentence on my lock screen, “You should try $whatever!”

Why put up with any ads? No other desktop OS does this…

updates don’t matter. Security doesn’t matter. You can just tell your computer to never update anything, and it’ll be the same for a decade. You can live in your little bubble.

You are free to do what you want, but do not give out advice like this to others. Security issues pop up constantly and not updating leaves you vulnerable to them.

For the room: If you want to stay on your unpatched machine, don’t plug it into the internet. Otherwise, use an OS that is currently receiving security updates.

Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.

You need to speak to every IT department worth a pinch of salt then; as no longer receiving security updates is a critical problem. That critical problem is solved by most IT departments by disposing of perfectly good computers, paying to have their SSDs shredded, and buying new computers.

Yeah, hating on the kid simply because his dad has money forces him into an us-vs-them situation. It does nothing to help.

Not to mention, it is exceedingly gross to cheer the death of someone just because their dad has money.

So what emergency are you thinking of?

You aren’t on a road and the car is confused about how to move around. You are now stranded because you can’t drive the car. I have yet to see any self-driving car even attempt to be reasonable in off-road driving.

Your buddy’s cabin in the woods, grass parking at a venue, natural disaster and the road is gone, a country driveway, getting into your backyard with the shit your bought at home depot, etc, etc.

The moment self driving cars are safe enough we are going to ban human drivers entirely

Naw. Too many people like driving, too many emergency situations that require a human. The most that will reasonably happen is people will prefer self-driving and driving test requirements will increase somewhat.

We very rarely ban old things, we mostly just convince people to use new things.

“that breaks speed limits” can be ok.

I have seen a number of US interstates posted at 55mph, when traffic moves at 70-80mph. Being stuck at 55mph on those interstates is dangerous.

get the last piece of my hardware dependence off…my 20 year old DAC

The $9 Apple DAC is unironically good. I can confirm it is plug-and-play with Mint.

Edit: To be clear, it is good if you just need an audio output (the core feature of a DAC). If you want crazy DAC features, it clearly isn’t it.

For a desktop OS, I have been recommending Linux Mint to new Linux users. The UI feels familiar to a Windows veteran, and the initial setup is designed to be user friendly.

However, don’t fret too much over it. Distros are mostly just a pre-configuration of the OS, all of them can do everything.

The issue isn’t it not working, the issue is security updates no longer being made. Feel free to keep using 10, just don’t put it on the network.

You can, but you won’t be getting security updates. Best to not put an OS without security updates on the network.

Being able to quickly get out of a burning car is important. If you only ever use the electronic door handle and your electrical system is damaged by…the fire, then you are much more likely to burn. The same problem exists on the outside of the car as rescuers have a harder time getting in to save people.

Getting stuck outside of the car in the winter is also pretty common when there is not a good place to grab when the door is covered in ice.

Car manufacturers have been making normal door handles for forever. Tesla ‘fixed’ something that wasn’t broken.

I have had to put quite a bit of force into a car door to get it to open on many an occasion. (Ice is a bitch) A normal door handle just works, stop trying to fix it!

Seriously. Every other car maker has figured out how to make normal door handles. You can even buy the parts directly from them if you find it too hard to design yourself.

The power train (and other vital components) of a car should be air-gapped from the internet. It’s crazy car manufacturers are even able to brick a car like this.

Is your car going to get security updates 5-10-20 years from now? No. The power train should be air-gapped from the internet.

I’m talking about your average Joe in the middle that doesn’t really follow politics but was mad at things getting more expensive over Biden’s term.

Ah, yes, there are also the terminally dumb and uneducated.

This is the response to people being unhappy prices sharply increased under Biden? People are hardly ‘dumb and uneducated’ for not liking price increases…

A statement that will always remain relevant: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

The constant purity tests is a major part of what got us Trump. People don’t like that shit and additionally destroys coalitions. It’s enlightening to see a huge portion of the community is keeping up the purity tests.

Have you…never had a job?

Yep. And if customers are getting pissed due to charitable donations we are doing…that incurs a significant cost and becomes a massive hurdle for any future charitable donations.

So, as I said, lesson learned: don’t support open source projects.

Edit: Next meeting about supporting open source project: “Hey this author has opinion x, anti-x is going to hate that. Let’s just spend the money elsewhere.”

Following meeting about supporting a different open source project: “Hey, this author has opinion anti-x, x is going to hate that. Let’s just spend the money elsewhere.”

Framework appears to intend to support bad people.

Framework intends to support open source projects. That has been their goal. Ascribing a different intent to it is just factually incorrect at best.